This seems exactly right to me. Paleo does not require you to count;
only to make better food choices. Since you are not counting anything,
but eating whenever and whatever you want (So long as you are making the
right food choices) it is really not a diet at all in the traditional
sense. That is why, while I object to "Diets in general" I do not object
to the "Paleo Diet." I don't even consider it to be a diet. In fact, if
you really want to follow a diet, you can do almost any diet, including
an Atkins like ketogenic diet or a traditional high carb diet, and still
be doing Paleo (High carb would be more difficult, since you would have
to limit meat and eat a whole lot of fruit, but that is what the
traditional high-carb diet folks want you to do anyway.)

Mike Weis wrote:

>I seem to have missed a good bit of the discussion, but I wanted to chime in
>with a thought or two of my own.
> Why anyone would want to go to all the trouble of counting calories, or
>grams of protein, or carbohydrates, or fats is totally beyond me. I'm being
>facetious, obviously, when I say this, but I don't think it would be
>stretching the truth too much to say that any weight loss that occurs
>because of such diets only occurs because of the excess brain power that's
>expended in having to COUNT everything all the time.
> What a waste of time...UNLESS you are actually training for something. If
>you are training for a particular sport, very unpaleo, I would think, then
>in that case it makes total sense not to eat a paleo diet. Normal people
>(whatever that means) shouldn't have to count anything.
> Paleo is really simple. REALLY. You eat the acceptable foods. You eat until
>you're sated, which is generally much less than most modern adults. If
>you're overweight, you lose weight. If you felt like crap before, chances
>are you'll feel better if you stick with it.
> What other diet can promise those results with virtually no effort?
>Honestly, all the effort I put into my diet now happens at the store, and it
>consists of having to constantly withdraw my hand from all the crap that
>I've been conditioned to want even though it's not good for me. If I can get
>home without any of it, the thinking part of my diet is over.
> That way I can dedicate the rest of my energy to things that really
>matter...like family, friends, becoming a better person, having fun.
> Don't quite know why I felt like saying all this now, but it seemed like
>the thing to do.
> Mike W.
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